Review of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. This review is slightly lackluster cause I was still really unsure what to say and what to feel about this. Hopefully everything I was trying to say came through the right way. Differing opinions are always welcome.

The New School (http://www.newschool.edu) presents a conversation with bell hooks, scholar-in-residence at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts (http://www.newschool.edu/lang) and other leading voices in black feminism and the LGBTQ community: author Marci Blackman (Tradition), film director Shola Lynch (Free Angela and All Political Prisoners), and author and activist Janet Mock (Redefining Realness), about liberating the black female body.

For more than three decades, bell hooks (née Gloria Watkins) has been recognized internationally as a scholar, poet, author, and radical thinker. The dozens of books and articles she has published span several genres, including cultural and political analyses and critiques, personal memoirs, poetry collections, and children’s books. Her writings cover topics of gender, race, class, spirituality, teaching, and the significance of media in contemporary culture. According to Dr. hooks, these topics must be understood as interconnected in the production of systems of oppression and class domination.

The bell hooks residency at The New School is an opportunity for students to engage with education as a practice of freedom. They can participate in a series of intimate conversations and public dialogues on subjects ranging from politics to love, race to spirituality, gender to lived bodies.

More information for the bell hooks scholar-in-residence
| http://www.newschool.edu/lang/bell-hooks-scholar-in-residence/

Nicki Minaj reads Maya Angelou’s poem “Still I Rise” at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles during Shining A Light: A Concert for Progress on Race in America, presented by A+E Networks and iHeartMedia. For more from the concert, tune in to A&E on Friday, November 20 at 8/7c.
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Koi Chand Rakh is an extraordinary tale of love, obsession, sacrifice, and heartbreak.

Zain, played by the dapper, Imran Abbas, is an easy going guy who doesn’t take life seriously and believes in enjoying it to the fullest. He has an intense obsession with beauty.

Rabail, played by the gorgeous, Ayeza Khan, is a loving and pure-hearted girl who’s a doctor by profession. Her parents died while she was still an adolescent.

Nashal, played by the stunning, Areeba Habib, is a beautiful girl with style and a fiery personality who is full of life.

Umair, played by the suave, Muneeb Butt, happens to be Nishal’s carefree and self-centered brother who, since childhood, has feelings for Rabail. Since childhood, Umair has had a strong bond with Rabail which develops into one-sided love as he grew older.

Zain has certain criteria for his life partner and when he meets Nishal, he thinks that he has found the love of his life. But a series of misunderstandings and confusion result in his marriage with Rabail, who, in no way, meets his expectations of a life partner.

This leads to events that affect the lives of all three; especially Rabail’s, who is forced to sacrifice on every single step. Rabail and Nishal come face to face as they realize that they are sharing Zain.

Sabiha Sumar as Nafeesa Niazi and Tanveer Jamal as Asad Niazi, are the maternal uncle and aunt of Rabail who have looked after and raised her after her parents’ demise and are the parents of Nishal and Umair who are exactly opposite of Rabail. They both are carefree and self-centered in nature.

Alan Bennett reluctantly pays some overdue bills in his 2013 Diary. Read it in full: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n01/alan-bennett/diary

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